On the Hero I feel that the volume control buttons on the left hand side of the unit are wasted. I would much rather turn them into scroll up/down buttons to give me an experience similar to the scroll wheel on my HTC TyTN 2 (Oh how I miss that scroll-wheel) - does anyone know how to do this?
Cheers,
Mike
I had a similar question about this. I have held the hero and played with it before. impatiently awaiting mine to get here on Thursday. from my short run from it, the back button annoyed the hell out of me, i think it should have swapped placed with the search key.
For those of you who have the hero, is this an annoyance to you? do you still wish it would have been closer to the trackball? or did you get used to it?
if your answers are : yes, yes, and no, anyone know how to go about getting the ball rolling on remapping these buttons? thanks alot.
You have to edit the files in /system/usr/keylayout with an Editor like Notepad++ or Textpad.
I was also interested in remapping the back key so thanks for providing an answer the the query.
I have tried to find some application to edit the files you pointed at, unfortunately, none of the notepads I tried seem to be able to open the files. Have I missed anything (apologies if I am asking a somewhat obvious question...)
Thanks for enlightening me
There should be some kind of way to access thoses files from the handset, but I guess it could be easier and more pratical to access them from your computer, by mouting /system through adb.
I have had the hero for about 3 weeks and unfortunately I find the back button still difficult to press when holding in one hand. I bet left handets have no probs tho.
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Hi,
sorry if I'm cross-posting. i posted in the 'tael' rom thread yesterday and realized that it actually applies to lots of 6.5 roms. my question is, is there a way (sorry if it was mentioned, i searched but couldn't find anything) to change the soft keys so that it has only 2 keys (left most and right most) like the older 6.1 style (or some 6.5 has it also like Energy). i know the left 'win' key is helpful too, but it's just very convenient when you are driving or can't really look at your phone to find the middle of the bottom portion of the screen to get to the softkey, whereas if they were at the leftmost and rightmost area it is so much easier to get to. so wondering if there's a cab or something already out there?
thanks.
I seldom use the search function on my n1 (quick press search button), compared to my shortcut (long press search button).
I'd love to have the function on the button flipped, so that only when I long press search I get to search, but simply quick pressing it brings me to quickdesk (my shortcut)
There has got to be others interested in this, but I can't find any solution on how to solve it..
Can somebody help me out?
Regards
-e
I THINK someone looked at this before, and without having an app running actively ALL the time to remap the default single press keys, its impossible.
dogiedogie said:
I THINK someone looked at this before, and without having an app running actively ALL the time to remap the default single press keys, its impossible.
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Or i assume, editing the framework from source ? Like how wysie did it with long-press home-button. If u dont know what im referring to try cm6.
The home button long press change in cm6 is really nice.
Wondering how deep in the OS/framework these changes are..
Basically the OS should register the 4 "hardware" buttons the same way, so if one can be changed, all should be able to be changed..
Also since I just wanna swap functions, there is no need for a gui/front end to control the changes or map certain programs to it.
(I wouldn't complain if cm6 got a full search button control for both short and long press though)
Sounds like something that could be baked into a cm rom if enough people was interested in it..
-e
It should be possible, but I took a brief look at the source and couldn't find it -_-. Will look harder next week. (Weekend's here )
Glad to see you all liking the home button binding change .
I was actually thinking about this after seeing the MT Slide ad... All the genius button is is the search button binded to a skinned voice dialer (if it's even skinned, haven't looked into it)
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It should be possible, but I took a brief look at the source and couldn't find it -_-. Will look harder next week.
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Massive props to you if you can pull this off!
Looking forward to some good news next week
Key Mapping
This is a good resource: http://www.kandroid.org/android_pdk/keymaps_keyboard_input.html#androidKeymapKeyCharMap.
Would be awesome if you could pull this off
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It should be possible, but I took a brief look at the source and couldn't find it -_-. Will look harder next week. (Weekend's here )
Glad to see you all liking the home button binding change .
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Is there anyway, with an existing app - or a tweak on an xml file etc that I can change the up and down volume buttons when the phone is in landscape?
On the stock rom - when you are in landcape - pressing "left" to increase volume is so utterly counter intuitive it drives me insane!
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Is there anyway, with an existing app - or a tweak on an xml file etc that I can change the up and down volume buttons when the phone is in landscape?
On the stock rom - when you are in landcape - pressing "left" to increase volume is so utterly counter intuitive it drives me insane!
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i have no time to search the buttons assignments, in fact it should be easy to do, if you get me how to asign buttons, i could do a script for you..
There is a button re-mapper. See if it helps you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
Yeah it's easy enough to change the key mappings in the /system/usr/keylayout/*.kl files - the problem is that it doesn't affect the phone until a reboot.
It's also an issue of hooking into "something" so that when the phone rotates it swaps the commands over. I believe CM does this (as well as for any D-pad swapping on rotation) by hijacking the input queue in the file KeyInputQueue.java
However as I'm on a stock ROM and can't really edit this, I'm guessing it's not really possible.
So... I've just permanently swapped the buttons over for the time being. I never use volume controls unless I'm watching vids and at that point I'll always be in landscape - so I'll take the annoyance on the portrait mode instead!
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Yeah it's easy enough to change the key mappings in the /system/usr/keylayout/*.kl files - the problem is that it doesn't affect the phone until a reboot.
It's also an issue of hooking into "something" so that when the phone rotates it swaps the commands over. I believe CM does this (as well as for any D-pad swapping on rotation) by hijacking the input queue in the file KeyInputQueue.java
However as I'm on a stock ROM and can't really edit this, I'm guessing it's not really possible.
So... I've just permanently swapped the buttons over for the time being. I never use volume controls unless I'm watching vids and at that point I'll always be in landscape - so I'll take the annoyance on the portrait mode instead!
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I just needed to know that *.kl thing wait im gonna make a script
EDIT: It's not gonna be so easy
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I just needed to know that *.kl thing wait im gonna make a script
EDIT: It's not gonna be so easy
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Yeah - got to the same point at me now
Woo and indeed Hoo!
Managed to work out what's going on, and after a bit of smali editing - it's all working.
Essentially, the DPAD rotation stuff is already in there, but since the device doesn't have the DPAD it's a bit useless. However it's possible to fool the device into thinking it's got a DPAD and using the existing rotate routine, and instead of remapping DPAD directions remap the VOLUME_UP and VOLUME_DOWN keys.
Seems to work perfectly!
I will tidy up the code (lots of debug hooks in at the moment!) and write a HowTo - but since it's hacking the internals of services.jar - my version would blat over the top of any custom theme.
any news about this?
LOVE my new EVO LTE (hardware) -- waiting on a couple software fixes for a few things.
i remember reading a thread where you could map an ICS android's dedicated camera button to voice search on soft-press. You know, the one-push of the button, instead of the holding-it-down which brings up the camera.
I love ICS but i HATE that google removed the dedicated search button!! I used that all the time. For everything...
anyway, i used the search and i simply can not locate that thread anywhere. Any help is appreciated.
This one?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671936
Its under Development. Hope this helps.
I agree with the search button comment... I just ended up adding a google search bar to the top of every panel like on the Nexus. I am starting to get used to tapping on it. But in apps, it does get occasionally frustrating-- though my love for the phone outweighs it dramatically
i agree, the phone itself is too awesome to get worked up over the search thing, but still... i miss it bordering on need it.
I'm glad to see someone is working on this, that is awesome, but that wasn't what i was looking for. it was in another phone's boards, it was done, and if i remember correctly, it only worked on ICS that had a dedicated hardware camera button. it wasn't a "remap any button you like hard or soft" thing...
i found this, which helps (and i did the same thing, put one on each homescreen ) voice-search button
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companion.GVButton
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still, it would be nice to have that button lower-right-side bring up the voice prompt! i had just gotten used to using voice-commands for everything only to have them take that away!
Dang, sorry that wasn't it.
I'm on exactly the same page. I was really enjoying using voice commands with ICS on my 3D with just a tap on the bottom, but now I just have to stretch my hand a tiny bit farther to get to that search bar [totally just realized a little while ago theres a mic on the bar for voice search too ].
But yes, here's to hoping someone cooks something up!
for remapping the list to menu, it's this thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671936
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26830800
check this. boo-ya
Hello,
I still haven't been able to figure out how to copy, cut and paste the text using the physical keyboard (or if this is possible) in my Xperia Mini Pro (XMP).
At first I tried the most obvious combination (menu + c/v, shift + c/v, blue button + c/v, etc), but it does not work.
After that I have searched the manual, google and multiple forums and the only thing I could find was some threads of other phones but nothing works. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
I really do hope there is was to copy / paste the text using the physical keyboard, because this will save a lot of time.
Thanks
**Sorry for my english
The same happens with different roms or just with one specific rom?
Sorry, I forgot about that point.
So far I have only tried sony official roms, and also some of xda.
My bootloader is locked, so only limited to these.
I never got this functionality
I'm currently using ICS lite.
Read this thread till the end & carefully & report if it works,please.
Thanks for responding.
Try again and got no results. In principle, many of the buttons mentioned do not exist in the Xperia Mini Pro.
Basically, this phone only has a general physical Home button, a button capacitive "back" and another of "options", also capacitive; then there are the physical buttons to raise and lower the volume and camera.
I'm only interested in achieving power cut, copy and paste with the keyboard. not so much with the general management of the applications (read: refresh the page, go back in the browser, etc.)
Also try to find applications in the market, but there are (or I'm really bad looking)
Well, maybe you can do a more extensive search or maybe someone can help you. The truth is that I don't own a mango, I own a smultron. Good luck bud.
Thanks for making the attempt!
I will continue researching the subject, and if I can not find anything else I think I will try to make an application, I have a basic idea of programming, but not on android, however it will be a good exercise.
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Thanks for making the attempt!
I will continue researching the subject, and if I can not find anything else I think I will try to make an application, I have a basic idea of programming, but not on android, however it will be a good exercise.
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An application? That would be great, go ahead bud, best of lucks for you.:good: